a bunch of you guys are talking about dual axis constraints... well, you're in luck! just press [shift] while you click on one of the widgets and Blender will constrain to the OTHER two axis... this made me very happy when i found out about it... Wonderful! A good way to work with widgets would be:...

I prefer the rt=2 version too. Okay, it's not so original, but does that matter? It's very similar to Modo, Max, Softimage XSI ect, but since these have already copied each other, Blender should surely be ok to use it too. The dual axis translation/scale gizmo from MAX looks interesting too. The abi...

Shift click on the red value, press tab once, then try and click on another button in that panel. It tabs again instead of selecting the other button. I actually get this too on OS X: In any panel i edit a value, when pressing enter of clicking with the mouse to accept/exit, it moves to the next nu...

there seem to be a couple of switches missing: why can I change the edge settings if the edge button is off? oversampling, gaussian blur, motion blur This is still an unresolved question. Should options disappear when the function is disabled? In some situations (although rare) the user might want ...

I think there is a script that makes an object always follow a 'floor' object beneath it. You could animate an invisible grid plane with RVKs or armatures. Only, come to think of it, this probably won't work with dupliverted objects.

Or maybe you should be able to assign vertex groups and thereby use regular weight painting to control influence. That would be simpler in terms of reusing the tools that are already there, and also more powerful because you have direct control of what vertices you are controlling.

Me complaining? I would not know where to start, yes I'm one of the few who don't praise blender as the best of the best, I don't care how much anger that raises, it's only for the best of the patient. Hey hey, you misunderstood. If you have a point with a complaint that's fine. It doesn't need to ...

Extra Min/Max sliders? What about ALT LMB for min and ALT RMB max on the actual slider? What? You are complaining about there being min/max settings for the sliders? Well, that's how it is currently in Blender (look in Action window with an RVK object selected, now click the name). If I understand ...

Once crit I'd have with the proposal though, is that it doesn't look easy to tell which blend shape you're actually editing after you've pressed 'Edit' or 'Display'. Quite true. Would it be out of the question to add a little label in the 3D View? So when you click the button to edit the 'Smile' sh...

For a replacement to the RVK system, I propose the following: Blend Shapes. A new name is actually fairly important IMO, 'RVK' is not only unclear, it's misleading. We are not dealing with a 'key' as in 'keyframe', we are dealing with a shape. Anyway, the concept of the Blend Shapes is exactly the s...

I guess what I really mean is that each RVK should have a separate Ipo, not a separate curve, just like the transformation of a bone has its own Ipo. Then these Ipos could be either collected into actions, or used to drive other things. The reason why bones have their own Ipo datablocks, is that ea...

What you mean is, the ability to animate a crease? Yeah, why not. It'd be really nice if EVERY parameter was animatable, XSI style. In XSI there is not a single parameter that cannot be keyframed. Next to every toggle, number field, radio button etc, there is a little keyframe icon that lets you set...

No, I mean one curve per shape. Right now we have 1 curve per 'sequence of shapes' - the one curve controls the amount of blending between all the different RVKs. What we should have is 1 separate curve for each shape, controlling that shape's influence. So if we have 5 different blend shapes, we h...

From all of this, it looks like what we need as the first fundamental step is to redo the RVK system so it uses one curve per RVK/blend shape, representing the percentage of influence. Hmm, isn't it already like this? In the IPO/Mesh window it displays one curve per RVK. The interface is still horr...